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Margaret Kimberley

Margaret Kimberley's Freedom Rider column appears weekly at the Black Agenda Report. Kimberley lives in New York City, and can be reached via e-Mail at Margaret.Kimberley (at) BlackAgendaReport.com.

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ViewsSaturday, September 02, 2017Joe Arpaio Is No AberrationEven most leftish white Americans like to think that their country is good and its institutions are fair and equitable. According to this wishful thinking human rights abuses only happen in faraway places and injustices here are resolved by reining in a few bad apples. The facts say otherwise and...Read more

ViewsWednesday, April 06, 2016The Panama Papers ProblemThe worst criminals on earth are not the poor who sit behind bars in jails and prisons. The biggest thieves are found among the rich. The 1% can buy legislation, politicians and the media to carry out and hide their dirty work. If they can’t change the laws to benefit themselves in their homelands...Read more

ViewsSaturday, January 30, 2016Flint, Michigan and DemocracyAmericans are browbeaten and propagandized into believing they live in a democracy. The word democracy is bandied about with such consistent ferocity that the expression “protesting too much” comes to mind. The story of the tainted Flint, Michigan water supply is Exhibit A in the prosecution of the...Read more

ViewsWednesday, June 24, 2015US Pushes Russia Towards WarThis columnist recently said that “ Russia Wins ” in its handling of America’s attempt to eviscerate its influence and its economy. At the time those words were written Secretary of State John Kerry met with Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia. The meeting appeared to be an admission that the imperial...Read more

ViewsFriday, May 29, 2015Gentrification and the Death of Black Communities“ The inhabitants are pushed aside to make way for transplants who may come from the suburbs, another state or even from another country.” There is no city in this country where black people are safe from the current method of displacement known as gentrification. Washington, DC, once had a...Read more

ViewsThursday, February 12, 2015For the US, War Is Peace in UkraineThe United States and the rest of NATO gambled when they took sides in Ukraine’s 2014 political crisis. American fingerprints were clearly seen on the coup which sent an elected president into exile. The West succeeded in putting Petro Poroshenko in the presidency, then showered his nearly bankrupt...Read more

ViewsWednesday, September 03, 2014Liar in a Tan Suit: Obama's Distortions from Ukraine to IraqOn August 28th, president Obama delivered remarks in the White House press room. That is hardly newsworthy but on that day the president wore a tan suit , not the usual presidential dark blue uniform. This simple fashion choice exposed many things that are wrong with America, from shallow media...Read more

ViewsThursday, August 07, 2014Climate Change – Point of No Return Time’s up, or so planet earth seems to be telling humanity. Extreme weather conditions around the globe, including rising temperatures, droughts, crop failures, melting sea ice, rising sea levels, disappearing glaciers and the loss of plant and animal species all point in only one direction. The...Read more

ViewsWednesday, July 16, 2014American and Israeli War CrimesOf all the partners in international crime in existence right now, the United States and Israel are the worst. Along with their less powerful cohorts like Saudi Arabia they have instigated occupations and carnage on a mass scale. Yet while one hand washes the other, it isn’t always clear who...Read more

ViewsWednesday, June 25, 2014The Plunder of Detroit and IraqThe ugly face of empire and disaster capitalism is visible all over the world. Detroit, Michigan, was once a thriving city but was sent into a tailspin by the deindustrialization of the United States, white flight, and institutional racism which blamed black people who were in fact the victims of...Read more

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